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There really are few benefits to the US from the Keystone XL project.

The oil derived would go on the world market, and wouldn't have any effect on the price of oil to us. Global oil interests would get the benefits - Tar Sands' developmen­t has attracted investment capital from oil multi-nati­onals, with Chinese corporatio­ns’ stake getting bigger all the time, because China would be getting the lion's share of the oil.

The project would be constructe­d by temporary labor working with steel made in Canada and India, not here in the US.

Much of the tar sands oil would be refined in Port Arthur, Texas, where the refinery is half-owned by Saudi Aramco, the state-owne­d oil company of Saudi Arabia.  

Then there's the environmen­tal impact of greenhouse gases from that oil from the tar sands, which could just be the tipping point of no return.

But what's more is that we would get stuck holding the bag on the inevitable spills despoiling the Ogallala Aquifer.  About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation­.

In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary (it covers an area of approximat­ely 174,000 miles in portions of the eight states of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. Once polluted, you can't clean an aquifer.  
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